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kadi

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From Ottoman Turkish قاضی (kadı), from Arabic قَاضِي (qāḍī), and from Arabic directly.

noun kadis

alternative Alternative spelling of qadi, Islamic judge, particularly (historical) in Ottoman contexts where they initially oversaw local administration as well as Islamic law. Each has an imaum, but the kadi is their head, of which dignity he seems not a little proud.

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@misc{kadi_2026,
  title = {kadi},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/kadi},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}